Incident: Air India B788 - all FMCs failed

[deeknow]

Oh dear... poor Boeing. And poor crew/pax too I guess, woulda been a little stressy in the pointy end there I'm picking...

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An Air India Boeing 787-800, registration VT-ANJ performing flight AI-301 from Melbourne,VI (Australia) to Delhi (India) with 215 people on board, was enroute at FL380 about 20nm north of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) when all three flight management computer system failed simultaneously. The crew diverted to Kuala Lumpur for a safe landing on runway 32L about 65 minutes later. The airline reported a software malfunction caused the simultaneous malfunction of the FMCs. The passengers were taken to hotels. A replacement aircraft is expected to depart Kuala Lumpur on Feb 6th and is estimated to reach Delhi with a delay of 24 hours.[/quote]

see: http://avherald.com/h?article=46f971be&opt=0

[Ian Warren]

Back to the old school navigation ... that's what its there for, and some believe you don't have to learn the maps.

[zk2704]

Bugger hate it when all of the FMCs failed making the aircraft uncontrollable.

[dbcunnz]

When the FMCs fail you aircraft is definitely not uncontrollable if you have a couple of well trained pilots who know how to fly an aircraft The trouble today is that there is to much reliance on computers and not enough on hands on flying.

[deeknow]

Yeah, this is less about impact on the crew and their ability to fly the aircraft, more about the negative impact/news for the 787 program which as we all know has had its fair share of probs w batteries and what not.
Hopefully its an isolated incident, but I'd say there will be a few s/w engineers at Boeing (or Honeywell) working overtime this week

Ian: are you working on an "Arbust" equivalent for Boeing yet???

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (deeknow @ Feb 8 2014,10:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ian: are you working on an "Arbust" equivalent for Boeing yet???

Negatory ... Always trying to stay flying with Boeing ... ARBUST dose not have a good track record with me .... I mean three times ! and first ANZ flight on the ground two and half hours .. Never in all me puff have i had a Going Boeing break down on me .... whats the old saying STRIKE THREE and your out